The hit 1987 film RoboCop came to life because of the city of Dallas. The story may be set in Detroit but all of the city scenes, buildings and roads for the car chases were filmed in Dallas.
There’s a disclaimer that plays before Disney-Pixars’ latest animated feature Lightyear. The title card explains that the film you are about to see is not about the toy
Twenty years ago, the city’s film commission had reached the end of its financial rope, leading the Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Film Commission to its inevitable collapse. A month later, the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau – now called VisitDallas – decided the city that gave the world movies RoboCop and…
Adam Sandler is back at it. Although it’s become the norm for mainstream movie stars to develop projects directly for streaming services, Sandler made headlines in 2014 when he signed an exclusive development deal with Netflix.
Filmmakers from all over gathered in Austin’s AFS Cinema on May 22 for the Austin After Dark Film Festival.
It’s been almost a decade since we’ve seen TV’s greatest pair of animated morons use their dwindling intellect to make a fruitless attempt to score. That ends today.
Just a few days shy of a year, Gov. Greg Abbott proudly signed a series of seven state bills into law that made Texas, as he and House Bill 2622 put it, “a second amendment sanctuary state.”
It’s taken far too long for the video game industry to deliver a game that lets horror fans control the movements and murdering abilities of some of the genre’s most infamous killers in a quality, cinematic style without committing a non-pixel based felony.
Every aspiring filmmaker has to start somewhere, and events such as the Pegasus Film Festival give them their first chance to share their vision with the world.
Even in a vast media world overrun by superheroes and lightsabers, true crime stories remain just as popular as ever with viewers.
You hear a lot about the next young artist who might be the “next Taylor Swift.” There’s a lot of the “next Leonardo DiCaprios” out there.
The man who coined the phrase “The drive-in will never die” with his own television resurrection is returning to town to a place that runs deep in his bloody veins. Drive-in movie critic and Shudder horror host Joe Bob Briggs will make his third appearance at the Texas Theatre on…
Dallas filmmaker Bradley Steele Harding has a unique hobby even for most album crate raiders. He collects vintage horror story albums. “Over a decade ago, I discovered a music blog back when people were uploading music, and it was some guy who collected scary story records from the ’60s or…
There’s a question that you’ve probably been asked dozens of times since the pandemic started: “So, what have you been binging recently?”
The Breaking Bad universe is an anomaly in pop culture: It’s so good that even its spinoffs and sequels stand up to the original.
Mark Wahlberg is no stranger to stepping into the role of a real inspirational figure. Between the underdog boxer Micky Ward in The Fighter.
Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed in federal court against the Netflix movie Cuties. The latest filing issued by Netflix and its attorneys focused on the Tyler County District Attorney
This week, news broke that legendary action star Bruce Willis was retiring from acting due to a health condition called Aphasia,
Conventions have become a steady and lucrative stream of revenue for celebrities, and if anyone needs a gig, it’s Gina Carano.
Don’t let TV snobs steer you wrong with their Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad worship: The most important television drama of our time is the spectacularly horrendous Love Is Blind.
It’s hard to imagine a guy like Lloyd Kaufman being disgusted by anything. His Troma Films production company bathes in bodily fluids, cartoonish gore and unapologetic humor.
There’s been this fear in the back of my mind ever since the makers of the FOX animated comedy King of the Hill announced they were looking to do a reboot. The fear is that someone with the power to bring the beloved Texas sitcom back to life might do…
